EV Charger Installers for UK Logistics & Haulage Depots

Logistics and haulage depots are where the Depot Charging Scheme was aimed: zero-emission HGVs, vans and coaches charging between duty cycles, on private land, with electrical demand that makes the DNO connection the single biggest project risk. The maths only works if grant claim, supply scoping and operational duty cycles are designed together — not bolted together afterwards.

The 1132 installers on this page are all OZEV-authorised for commercial work on the public GOV.UK list. OZEV does not publish a depot or HGV sub-tag, so the right next step is to ask each shortlisted installer for a recent depot reference of similar power and socket count.

Typical logistics depot scope

• AC overnight bays, 7–22 kW — for vans and smaller commercial vehicles returning to base on a single duty cycle. Load management is essential: 30 vans at 11 kW unmanaged is 330 kW of peak demand.
• DC rapid bays, 50–150 kW — for HGVs, coaches and back-to-back van duty cycles. Almost always triggers a G99 connection application and DNO reinforcement.
• HV connection and transformer compound — anything above ~200 kW of installed capacity usually means a new 11 kV supply, transformer pad and metered substation.

Depot Charging Scheme — the headline rules

• 70% of chargepoint and civil costs (trenching, cabling, electrical upgrades), capped at £1m per organisation.
• First application window: 25 March – 30 June 2026. Works to be completed by 31 March 2027.
• Aimed at fleets adopting zero-emission HGVs, vans and coaches — not the vehicles themselves, and not the DNO's own deep network reinforcement.
• See the grant guide for the full mechanics.

How rapid DC sizing relates to operational duty cycles

Power per bay should be sized backwards from the duty cycle, not forwards from the spec sheet. A 44-tonne tractor unit doing one daily run with an 11-hour rest takes a 50 kW bay; a multi-drop van fleet with 90-minute charge windows between loops needs 150 kW. Over-spec wastes capex on the unit and drives a larger DNO connection that you then pay for. Under-spec strands a vehicle. A credible depot installer asks for the duty-cycle data first and quotes hardware second.

The DNO problem is the project

Under Ofgem's Access SCR rules (April 2023) the DNO absorbs deep network reinforcement cost — but the customer still pays the connection works and the assets to the meter. A documented case (Fleet News) saw a £640k connection drop to around £130k under the new rules. Many quotes still don't reflect this. A credible depot installer scopes the DNO position before quoting hardware. See the costs guide for worked depot numbers.

Buying questions a logistics operator should ask

• Can you show a redacted recent G99 application and connection offer letter for a comparable site?
• Is the Depot Charging Scheme 70% line shown explicitly on the quote, with a separate budget for the DNO works?
• Is dynamic load management baked in, or a paid add-on?
• Are you proposing an Independent Connection Provider (ICP) for the contestable works, and why or why not?
• What uptime SLA applies to the rapid units, and what is the on-site response time?